C. Fill in the following chart about Mrs Bradley’s smoking experience. Name: (Doris Bradley) Sex: (female) Age: (thirty-two)
Amount: (three packets of twenty a week) First experience: Time: (at the age of seventeen) Place: (at a party)
Offered by (boyfriend, not husband) Feeling: (awfully grown-up)
Later: started smoking (2 or 3) a day and gradually (increased). Experience of giving up smoking: twice 1. Time: (six months before getting married) Reason: (saving up)
Result: (only cut it down from 30 a day, still smoked a little) 2. Time: (when expecting a baby) Reason: (according to doctor‘s advice)
Result: (gave up completely for 7 or 8 months and took it up a couple of weeks after the baby was born, because the baby was being bottle-fed) Time when she smokes most:
1. (watching TV) 2. (reading books) 3. (in company) 4. (with friends)
Time when she never smokes:
1. (doing the house work) 2. (on an empty stomach)
Section Three
Task 1: Learning to Predict
Listen to the following sentences. When you hear \what the speaker is going to say next.
(1) Answer: (They‘d be exhausted at the end of each performance.) Reason: (―otherwise‖ suggests a result of the opposite condition) (2) Answer: (I enjoyed it every much.)
Reason: (―apart from that I msut say‖ often suggests an opposite statement to earlier
comments.)
(3) Answer: (I stayed up late to finish it.)
Reason: (―and‖ suggests that the speaker would finish the book at one sit.) (4) Answer: (the book never really got started at all)
Reason: (After an opinion of agreement, the phrase \
the expression \
confession—something which is probably not as good as the one mentioned.) (5) Answer: (I tend to skip parts that don‘t really hold my interest.) Reason: (―otherwise‖ suggests a result of the opposite condition.) (6) Answer: (it was rather long.)
Reason: (―I must admit‖ suggests an agreement to the other people‘s opinion.)
Task 2: Dictation
The following paragraph will be read to you slowly. Listen to it for three times, and while listening write as much and as closely to the original text as you can.
Books Belong to the Past
Sir,
I visited my old school yesterday. It hasn't changed in thirty years. The pupils were sitting in the same desks and reading the same books. When are schools going to move into the modern world? Books belong to the past. In our homes radio and television bring us knowledge of the world. We can see and hear the truth for ourselves. If we want entertainment most of us prefer a modern film to a classical novel. In the business world computers store information, so that we no longer need encyclopaedias and dictionaries. But in the schools teachers and pupils still use books. There should be a radio and television set in every classroom, and a library of tapes and records in every school. The children of today will rarely open a book when they leave school. The children of tomorrow won't need to read and write at all.
M.P. Miller
London
Lesson Five
Section One
Task 1: An Upleasant Trip
A. Give brief answers to the following questions.
(1) Where did Mr. and Mrs. Wilson go for their summer holiday? Answer: The Isle of Wright
(2) How did they feel about the tour? Answer: They were not pleased with their hotel.
(3) What did Mr. Wilson decide to do when they returned home? Answer: He decided to write to the Manager of Happytours. (4) What is Happytours? Answer: A travel agency
(5) What did Mr Wilson complain about in his letter? Answer: The hotel and travel arrangement (6) What will the wilsons do in the future?
Answer: They will never book any future holidays through Happytours.
B. Fill in the blanks with the words used in the brochure and by Mr Wilson to describe the hotel and travel arrangement. Hotel Service Food Atmosphere
Task 2: At the Travel Agency
A. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) to complete each of the following statements. (1) Miss Bush comes to the travel agency to _____________.
Brochure a magnificent view of the sea Courteous, old fashioned excellent Relaxed, friendly Mr Wilson Overlooking a car park The majority of the staff were foreigners and couldn‘t speak or understand English Strictly beefburgers and chips or fish and chips, wine at exorbitant prices Didn‘t get away till 6 pm Journey home 11:00 ferry Comfortable, mediumsized, with Half a mile from the sea, with our room a. ask for some information b. buy a ticket c. talk to a friend
(2) Miss Bush's main purpose of the trip is ____________. a. sightseeing in Australia and the Far East b. visiting a friend in Cairo c. attending a conference in Sydney (3) Miss Bush will probably buy ____________. a. an excursion fare b. a full return ticket c. a single ticket
(4) The full fare costs _____________. a. 1402 pounds b. 1204 pounds c. 2104 pounds
(5) Miss Bush's trip will probably be ____________. a. London—Sydney—Cairo b. London—Kuwait—Sydney c. London—Cairo—Sydney
(6) Miss Bush will probably come to the travel agency again _____________. a. the day after tomorrow b. next week c. in two weeks
B. True or False Questions.
(1)（T）Miss Bush's conference in Sydney will last for three weeks.
(2)（F） Miss Bush thinks that the full return fare is better than the excursion fare because she
can have a stopover.
(3)（T）Miss Bush wants to visit not only Australia but also the Far East this time. (4)（T）Though Miss Bush thinks that the full return ticket is quite expensive, she will accept
that because it is once in a lifetime.
(5)（F）Though Miss Bush is used to travelling by air, she's still frightened this time. (6)（T）A friend of Miss Bush's in Cairo is also going to attend the conference in Sydney.
C. Fill in the blanks with the two things that Miss Bush will do.
(1) Persuade her （her two friends）, who are also going to the conference, to （stop over with
her on the way back）..
(2) Persuade （Mr Adams to stop with her Cairo）
Section Two
Task 1: A Saturday Afternoon
A. Identification. Identify briefly the following characters in the story. Name Identification
Gillian (Dr Carmichael‘s new research assistant) Dr. Carmichael (the president of St Alfred‘s Hospital) Maurice Featherstone (the gardener of the hospital)
B. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) to complete each of the following statements. (1) St Alfred's Hospital is considered most exclusive because _____________. a. it accepts all people with mental illness b. it only accepts people with serious mental illness c. it only accepts extremely rich people with mental illness (2) Gillian parked her car _____________. a. outside the hospital gates
b. outside the main entrance of the hospital building c. in the park of the hospital
(3) Gillian came to the hospital to _____________. a. research on the problems of long-stay patients b. solve the problems of Maurice Featherstone c. be a doctor in the hospital
(4) After Maurice entered the hospital, _____________. a. he never went out b. he only went to the village on weekends c. he only went out to see flower shows
(5) Maurice had been the gardener of the hospital for ___________ years. a. forty-five b. thirty-five c. twenty